lore-friendly transitioning methods

[Cleretic]

So taking a different approach than 'what options would literally exist in-universe', I do want to say that, in my experience knowing and meeting plenty of people who write or play trans characters in roleplaying or fanworks, most of them actually do just go for the medicinal option. They parallel actual real-life hormone therapy rather than picking a fantastical approach. It's not the only approach I've seen, but it definitely seems like it's in the majority; it's what lets them reflect their own reality, and write a process that they know and typically like the results of. Hormones do a hell of a lot more than you probably expect!

As much as Fantasias nebulously exist, and as much as transformation magic might work (I would expect maybe with unknown negatives), I do want to tell the cis people of this community that the trans people tend to pick the hormones. 'I would just get a Fantasia' is not the option that resonates.


Hilariously, the second most popular option after hormones in my experience isn't 'Fantasia' or 'known transformation magic', it's probably 'desperate void magic that was definitely a bad idea'. Which might help to highlight that to most trans people trying to reflect transness in their own work, depicting the journey is just as if not more more important than the end result, even if that journey was not necessarily a positive one.